Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned

Who knows. There are so many algorithms and people at play in the decisions to ban things on large platforms that most people that work at the organization itself won't even be able to tell you who or what, specifically, was responsible.

That's why this gets posted to HN with hope that enough relevant people will notice such that remediation has a real chance of occurring, because with a normal 'appeal' your chances are basically nil regardless of how incorrect the ban was.

If that group was relying on Google, that's on them at this point.

If you use any Google product, you better have an alternative ready. There's no telling when Google will either shut the product down, or just ban you.

"comp.lang.c has been identified as containing spam, malware, or other malicious content."

Hehe. Insert Rust joke here.

Unsafe content.